There's an opportunity for midmarket firms to save money by shifting IT operational costs from the capital expenditure side of the budget to the operational side, with cloud just a part of it, a Gartner analyst tells Midsize Enterprise Summit attendees.

The pioneering app marketplace, nearly 11 years-old, is refreshing its partner program so the Salesforce channel can continue to add valuable services and deliver a greater variety of enterprise solutions.

Google CEO Sundar Pichai says Alphabet's cloud business enjoyed the highest growth in headcount and capital expense of all Alphabet's businesses and is providing the kind of 'heavy lifting' needed to help meet enterprise IT requirements.

A little more than a year after Fortinet revamped its sales structure in the region, company executives said the security vendor's Q1 growth in North America validates the company's reorganization after many months that were slow to show progress.

Peak 10 wants partners to know that cloud is a big opportunity for the channel. The provider's new channel chief Dave Sroka told CRN about how Peak 10 is doubling down on its partner strategy by investing in new channel managers and making cloud education for solution providers a priority in 2017.

Docker CEO Ben Golub said his company is a key component of digital transformation as 'a way for you to get yourself to that point without having to lose the things that got you where you are right now.'

RapidScale co-founder and CEO Randy Jeter shared how the cloud service provider is attracting stronger talent and benefiting partners by paying more attention to its workplace, amenities and company culture.

Palo Alto Networks and Okta announced they are teaming up, partners said the VMware Cloud On AWS offering is destined to reshape the cloud landscape, and Houston-based solution providers fight to recover from Hurricane Harvey.